Activism


  • Taking action

Description

Emphasizing action in contradistinction to passivity, giving precedence to practice and experience over theory and abstraction.

Implementation

Activism is a concept that sprang from the early 20th century work of John Dewey and Maria Montessori on learning theory and education methods. Activism took root particularly in the USA where it is identified with a spirit of progress and accomplishment.

Claim

  1. Activism repudiates speculation in favor of action which creates or adds to the base of experience from which critical judgments about future actions can be made.

  2. It overcomes the paralysis of situations in which established theories do not shed light on future action.

  3. Knowing is not enough, you must also act.

  4. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  5. In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing. (Theodore Roosevelt).

Counter claim

  1. Activism tends to detach itself from its roots, to become unanchored or purposeless activity carried out for the sake of keeping busy or appearing productive or even avoiding the hard questions of life and the interior reflection that they provoke.

  2. Activism defers thoughtful response until it is too late to respond thoughtfully.

Narrower

  1. Volunteering
  2. Using positive discrimination
  3. Undermining political opposition to administrative action
  4. Taking trade union action
  5. Taking social action
  6. Taking remedial action
  7. Taking political action
  8. Taking mystical activism
  9. Taking missionary action
  10. Taking local environmental action
  11. Taking legal citizen action
  12. Taking illegal trade union action
  13. Taking illegal government action
  14. Taking illegal action
  15. Taking government action against regimes with hostile policies
  16. Taking government action
  17. Taking global action
  18. Taking direct action
  19. Taking catholic action
  20. Structuring effective development action
  21. Striking illegally
  22. Starting civic action corps
  23. Speaking out
  24. Reducing time to take action
  25. Reducing nationalistic allegiance
  26. Providing opposition to administrative action
  27. Promoting environmental shareholder activism
  28. Prohibiting dumping of hazardous wastes
  29. Planning local action
  30. Passive resistance
  31. Asserting LGBTQ rights
  32. Joining in community action
  33. Individualizing action
  34. Increasing responsible action
  35. Holding tactical action meetings
  36. Generating consumer action
  37. Establishing joint action among churches
  38. Disseminating action alert briefings
  39. Developing inter-disciplinary action
  40. Developing humanitarian action
  41. Creating action groups
  42. Boycotting companies
  43. Adapting to change
  44. Acting on problems
  45. Acting collectively

Constrains


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